comical 0.8
Comical 0.8
Comical - The Comic Book reader more>>
Read your favorite scanned comic books and graphic novels with Comicals absurdly easy GUI and in-your-face double page display!
Main features:
- Single-Page or Double-Page display modes.
- Several zoom modes - Fit, Fit-to-Width, Fit-to-Height, Original, and Custom.
- Crisp image scaling with algorithms adapted from FreeImage 3.
- Autodetects double pages scanned together and displays it accordingly.
- Page rotation.
- Full-Screen mode.
- Left-to-Right or Right-to-Left browsing.
- Displays JPG, GIF, and PNG images.
- Supports RAR(.cbr) and ZIP(.cbz) comic book archives
- Supports all encrypted RAR archives as well as ZIP archives with pkzip 2.04g encryption.
Enhancements:
- Even faster than ever before, thanks to numerous cleanups and fixes
- Memory leak in ComicBook::Entry() fixed
- Only pages are shown in full-screen mode
- Google Local style scrolling: just drag to move the page!
- Thumbnail browser
- No longer blocks when the page is not ready
- Now using unzip and unrar libraries directly
- Password-protected ZIPs and RARs now supported
- Using wxSizers to layout window instead of doing it by hand
- Right-to-Left mode implemented
- Fit-only-if-Oversized implemented
- Using events to pass information between classes
- make install, install-strip, uninstall, distclean targets
- Makefile checks dependencies correctly now
- TIFF support taken out for simplicity, size
- Linux and Windows icons improved
- Scaling takes neighboring pages into account
- Matching rotation icons
- Icons in menus
- Using PNGs instead of XPMs and ICOs for icons
Comics 0.8.5
Comics is well-known as a fast and powerful utility that is designed to enable you to organize your personal comics in a simple and virtual library. more>>
Comics 0.8.5 is well-known as a fast and powerful utility that is designed to enable you to organize your personal comics in a simple and virtual library. Cover image, simple search, series, title, publisher, date, price, page number, cover type, story, pencil, indian Inks, colors, notes.
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
iComic 13
Allows you to see comics on your iPhone. more>> Allows you to see comics on your iPhone.
iComic was developed because, unfortunately for comic fans, iTunes transforms all photos (or jpeg comic images) to a downscaled resolution when transferring to your iPod touch or iPhone so comic jpegs are unreadable. ComicViewer and iComic utilise the touch-screen zoom, landscape view and accelerometer to provide a great portable electronic comic book reader and zipped image viewer.
System requirements:
- iPhone
Compactor 0.8
Compactor - File compression utility more>>
Compactor provides support for the following formats:
.zip
.tar.gz
.tar.bz2
.dmg
.dmg-bz2 (.dmg with bz2 compression, only OS X 10.4 can read this)
Warning, the command line tools that handle .zip, .tar.gz, and .tar.bz2 (that Compactor uses) arent alias friendly and will remove them from any archives you create.
QuickMail 0.8
QuickMail - Now you can quickly send emails from your Gmail, Yahoo! or other mail account! more>>
On the back of the widget you can enter your account details - this can be as simple as selecting, say, Gmail and then entering your Gmail address and Gmail password. Dont worry - the geeks among us can still enter specific server details (hosts, port numbers and other such guff).
Sending an email is as easy as typing in the email address of the person you want to email, followed by the subject and message. Click the Quickmail button and off it goes!
As an added bonus there is a list of the last 5 people youve emailed stashed away in the dropdown to the right of the to box making it nice and easy to contact those people you email most often. Same thing goes for the subject box for that matter.
What are you waiting for? Go forth and QuickMail!
ComicReader 0.3.2
ComicReader - Daily comics downloader more>>
The ComicReader is a program to read daily comics like Garfield, Dilbert, Userfriendly and lots of other daily comics. The comicreader has unique features like autodownloading the comics, central managed comic definitions and the option to email comics.
comics icons 0.1
comics icons - Funny characters icon set more>>
The icons are beautifully drawn and llok best in 128x128 at 32bit mode.
Completly freeware.
ComicCollector 0.32
ComicCollector lets the comic enthusiast manage their comic collection by tracking the title and the issues they have in their collection. Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3 or later more>> ComicCollector lets the comic enthusiast manage their comic collection by tracking the title and the issues they have in their collection.
Mac OS X 10.3 or later.
Release notes not available at developers website nor in the download.
iPhone Comic 0.13
A very efficient zipped image viewer. more>> A very efficient zipped image viewer.
iPhone Comic is a very efficient zipped image viewer.
Main features:
- iPhone Comic is highly recommended for reading books or comics.
- Supported zip files only.
- Support button page slide, swipe page slide, and gravity page slide.
System requirements:
- iPhone
Comic Icons 3.0
Comic Icons - Comic icon set more>>
All icons are beautifully drawn and look best in 128x128 at 32bit mode.
Completly freeware for non-commercial use.
SIMBL 0.8.1
SIMBL - Build hacks for Cocoa applications and apply the code selectively based on an applications unique identifier more>>
Some applications do about 90% of what I want.
Solution:
Develop my own applications.
Better Solution:
Patch the application myself...
1. What It Does
SIMBL (Smart InputManager Bundle Loader) - pronounced like "symbol" or "cymbal" allows you to build hacks for Cocoa applications and apply the code selectively based on an applications unique identifier. Its not really all that smart, or even clever, but its smarter than just blindly loading code into an application.
For example, Safaris application identifier is com.apple.Safari. You can use this to prevent bundles that link against application-specific frameworks from bombing on startup when they encounter another application that does not support those libraries. You can also use the applications bundle version to further specify when your plugin should load.
2. Installing
There are two parts to SIMBL, the bundle itself, which is packaged as an InputManager, and the plugins.
Due to the limitations of Apples Installer.app, these packages install to /Library/InputManagers, though they work equally well in the user domain as well (~/Library/InputManagers). I wish Apple would provide the option for a user-specific install option, since plugins can really sneak up on an unsuspecting user.
3. How To
Once youve installed SIMBL, you need to drop some bundles into the Plugins folder. (/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins) SIMBL scans this folder for bundles each time an application launches. It will check both the Local and User domain for this special folder.
This means that it will check ~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins before looking in /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins. Additionally, SIMBL detects if you have two conflicting plugins and prevents potentially undesirable behavior by only loading one.
SIMBL plugins are nothing more than standard Cocoa bundles created by XCode, with the addition of one key in the Info.plist. For further information, you can read the SIMBL section in my brief tutorial on Cocoa hacking.
SIMBL was originally created when I was working on PithHelmet, but here are now a bunch of SIMBL plugins available. If you dont see yours listed, feel free to edit the list on the wiki.
Enhancements:
- Universal Binary.
MMInputFamily 0.8.4
MMInputFamily - Digital TV PCI & USB drivers more>>
This family has been created to support multimedia input devices such as Digital TV cards. It is called the MultiMedia Input Family because its use is not restricted to Digital TV applications alone: DVB and its cousins like ATSC promise all sorts of other media goodies, such as interactive TV shows (vote with your remote), IP over the air (internet downloads), data channels (weather/stockmarket), near video on demand (movie starts every half hour), and many others. Hopefully the MMInputFamily will eventually be adopted by writers of commercial drivers or Apple, but we could be waiting a while for that.
Enhancements:
- Download the MultiMedia Input Family and Drivers v0.8.4 package from 17/5/2006
- Ported all drivers and UDMarket to the Intel X86 architecture. Was irritating but straightforward. (Mustnt have been too hard since I managed to get it working without an Intel machine to test it on.) The full complement of BEUInt32, LEUInt32 and plain-old UInt32 plus other sizes are now available in FTypes.hpp using funky assembler inlines for speed.
- Change above required updating to XCode 2.2 and gcc 4.0. Since the latest gcc mangles ObjC qualifiers differently (its a bug), some hacks were required to keep the wire protocol unchanged. I believe I have succeeded here, i.e. older versions of iTele (incl over network) should remain compatible with these new drivers.
- MMInputShims in UDMarket now listen for sleep notifications. Before the system goes to sleep, they withdraw their goods from the market, deactivate their device and invalidate any remaining clients. When the system wakes back up, they vend their goods on the market again. This means that finally a system with active devices will survive sleep, even if they are streaming! The withdrawal/revending is necessary for remote clients (who arent sleeping with us), and although its a little annoying for local clients its actually a whole lot saner and a case that the clients (i.e. iTele) should deal with anyway.
- Beta version of support for the LGDT3303 as found in the FusionHDTV 5 ATSC PCI card and USB box (LGH064F tuner only).
- The LGDT330X driver now supports selecting between 8VSB and QAM64/256 by setting the Constellation tuning parameter (to a number: 64/256=QAM; other=VSB).
- Beta driver for the TwinHan MagicBox Pro (using ULi M9207). Having problems talking to the tuner.
- Support for the UltraView DVB-T Lite PCI board.
- Attempted to get TT-Budget 1500 to work but gave up and had to return card. Some architectural improvements in the TDA1004X driver resulted from this at any rate.
- Attempted to update to the latest firmwares for the DVICO FusionHDTV USB DVB-T box. I may still have selected the wrong one however since there are multiple versions inside the Windows driver now.
- Made a dummy PCI driver called DeepSleeper to attach to unused ConexantCX2388X PCI functions, since in Mac OS X 10.4.2 (and possibly later systems too) deep sleep is no longer possible unless all functions are matched. Very annoying.
hymn 0.8
hymn - Removes iTMS AAC copy restrictions more>>
Main features:
- Use HYMN to decrypt your iTunes protected AAC files so that they can be played on non-iTunes-capable, but AAC-capable devices and operating systems, such as Linux.
- Use HYMN to eliminate the five computer limit imposed by iTunes.
- Use HYMN to make archival backups of your music.
- Use HYMN as the first step in converting your music from protected AAC to MP3, Ogg or your other favorite audio file format, for use with your non-iPod portable audio player.
- Use HYMN to demonstrate your belief in the principles of fair-use under copyright law.
Enhancements:
- Added support for decrypting iTMS 4.7.1-4.8 AAC music files to enable fair-use listening on all of your devices.
- This application requires you to obtain keys to unlock your music with. See http://www.hymn-project.org for details.
Yazi 0.8
Yazi - An Asian character dictionary more>>
Yazi is still undergoing a lot of development, hence the pre 1.0 version number. Comments and suggestions are welcome! Yazi will only support 10.3 and above of OS X, because the UI elements used for searching in the dictionary are only supported by 10.3 and above.
We are still in the process of adding help files for all of Yazis features from within the application. For the time being, see the Quick Start guide for help on getting up and running with Yazi.
Main features:
- Dictionary of most Chinese characters from Unicode with Chinese (Mandarin & Cantonese), Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese pronunciations
- Dictionary of Chinese words from CEDict
- Unicode/HTML conversion services
- Easily lookup characters from any program that supports OS X services. (Yazi must be installed in your Applications folder and you must log-out and re-login for services to be available.)
- Large, easy to read lookup window
- Export characters you have looked up for later study
- New characters can be added to dictionary, or dictionaries can be extended to other languages or meta-data
Enhancements:
- Non-beta release. Added collapsing lookup window, ability to add characters, and ability to edit & save changes in entries.
Simple Comic 1.7 Beta 217 / 1.6.1
Mall utility created for just one task, viewing comics, nothing more nothing less. more>> Mall utility created for just one task, viewing comics, nothing more nothing less.
Simple Comic is a small utility created for just one task, viewing comics, nothing more nothing less.
Two page layout: Pages are laid out side by side, as they would be in print. This is a rather common feature, but its implementation is generally terrible. Most applications do not take into account the aspect ratio of each individual page. When a two page spread is displayed three pages are usually on screen at once, which is just plain annoying.
Archive handling: Never have to decompress another comic archive. Simple Comic can seamlessly deal with .cbz, .zip, .cbr, and .rar files.
Pick up where you left off: Feel free to exit Simple Comic as your session will be restored the next time it is opened.
Alternate page ordering: Pages can be layed out either left to right or right to left. Pre-defined image height: Instead of forcing to user to zoom in or out initially or worse, on each page, Simple Comic allows the user to set a default image height. Every page viewed thereafter will be scaled prior to being displayed.
Simplicity: Does not attempt to be all things to all people. Features are not added unless they actually improve the users experience.
Enhancements
- New XADMaster archive handling framework.
- List of supported archive formats has been streamlined (zip/cbz, rar/cbr, 7zip, lha).
- Archives now open faster.
- Solid RARs and 7zip archives are now much faster.
- Removed page turn delay associated with arrow keys when scrollbars are disabled.
- Page-up/down now scrolls horizontally upon hitting vertical page limits.
- Added vertical scroll-wheel support for page turns.
- Fixed bug where the open file dialog could only open archives and folders.
- Text file reading is no longer limited to archives.
- Enclosing folders now affect page sort order.
- Loupe size can now be changed by holding option+shift+scroll-wheel instead of relying on the availability of a horizontal scroll wheel.
- Removed the keyboard shortcut prefs pane. Redundant due to keyboard system prefs.
- Size of app has decreased.
Simple Comic 1.7b233 provides users with a convenient image viewer built ... Auto-save: Comics are automatically bookmarked and reopened at launch. Page Rotation: RotateLicense:Freeware
Features: Page Layout: Pages laid out as they would be in print Page ... Simple Comic 1.7b223 is designed as an convenient tool for you with many funny stories! MajorLicense:Freeware
Page Layout: Pages laid out as they would be in print - Page Ordering: Left to right ... rar, tar, 7z, lha and others - Multiple Sessions: View multiple comics at one time - Auto-save